Category Archives: book art
“Destroy, and you create”: an Auto-Destructive History lesson for Jack Hroswith
Here you have my latest work, a History school book once belonging to a pupil named Jack Hroswith, that I altered using matches, a glass surface, and the pressure of my fingers – Fire being at the same time an element of destruction and creation. In an iconic scene from Truffaut’s adaptation of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit […]
ballroom dancing: flowers, with a twist
A. S. loves flowers; not just because he is a sophisticated gentleman, but also because plants are his life. He creates beautiful gardens on rooftop terraces, back yards or by some Chinese waterfront managing species and seasons in the same way a painter would plan his color palette. There was no surprise then, when he […]
an animated book alteration: the age of fable
Is it possible to create some sort of connection between book art and the digital media? I have been asking myself and sharing my thoughts about this issue for some time now. I have then decided to indulge in some experimentation, and here is the result of one of them: a combination of book alteration […]
heads bodies legs: the making of a theatre show from the visual designer’s point of view
For the past months I have been working on the design of illustrations, animation and book art for a new theatre production that has been performed at The Space, in East London, for the first two weeks of August. Some pictures of rehearsal sessions, general information and news can be found on our blog, here. […]
fish and tunnel books
Last Thursday I had the privilege to teach at the London branch of an International project based on the exchange of knowledge, called Trade School. “Trade School is an alternative learning space that runs on barter. Anyone can teach a class, and students can sign up for classes by agreeing to bring barter items that […]
living for less: Argos catalogue, postmodernized
A play staged in the aisle of a supermarket, opera singers playing the role of TV-drama characters, and unaware Tesco customers becoming active part of the performance: this is what happens in one of the nine episode of a project produced by Welsh National Opera, Nine Stories High, that I recently had the chance to […]
Collins Family Cookery
Last week I was involved by RoCo in a very inspiring project that will be displayed in Milan from the 17th to the 21st of April during the Design Week. RoCo is a new concept of art and design gallery created by Italian curators Elena Comincioli and Annalisa Rosso. “There is not a fixed space […]
Ex-votos: altered books
I have recently finished my contribution to Al-Mutanabbi Street Project: a series of three altered copies of The Outline of History by H.G. Wells. The English science fiction writer, not satisfied by the quality of educational History books of his time, wrote his personal contribution to the History of the World: while I was wandering […]
fairy tales and anatomy
Last weekend I took part in a paper art workshop held at the Center for Book Art, NYC, by English paper artist Su Blackwell; her work, mostly inspired by fairy tales and folklore, old images and natural elements, visualizes a fascinating and suspended world. Sweet and light atmospheres are superbly mixed with the deep and […]
the great french films
This is the result of my new project of book alteration: I transformed a found book about the history of French cinema into a three-dimensional scene where characters and actors from different decades seem to gather for an impossible conversation. All the irrelevant images and text have been cut out from every page and this […]
